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Once upon a time . . . there was a man (that's me) and a woman (that's my wife Evelyn) returning to their home in the Ticino in southern Switzerland. During this journey in September 1993 we took a break on a high (8130 ft. / 2478 m) mountain road called the "Nufenen Pass". It was crackling cold with fresh snow from the previous night. The wide view overlooking the valley was overpowering, the mountain peaks looked as if they were covered with powdered sugar. Besides the two of us there was nothing but stones and boulders split from the towering cliffs. "These stones are so interesting in shape and so brightly glittering in the sunbeams, I would like to have them in our garden ..."